Cheryl Schatz

Lin #42,

He told them to be fruitful and multiply, He told them about the food, etc. And He is telling them this before we read about either of them being formed. Is there any significance to this? I have no idea.

This proves that creation = formed. It is not different but the same thing as far as humanity goes. We do know that God is the creator of language and when he calls them, “them”, we can be assured that he was speaking to more than one person. He was speaking to both Adam and Eve and of course this gives us great confidence that when Eve quoted God later as having spoken to her about what she could and couldn’t eat, we can be assured that God did speak to her too. Some would like us to think that God would not stoop to speak to the first woman and he would only communicate to her through the man. This is not the truth from scripture.

Good thoughts, Lin.